BRITISH MODERN REMADE — STYLE . DESIGN . GLAMOUR . HORROR
Public Programme
Symposium – Tuesday 22nd May 2.00 – 6.00pm, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery
This event will be an opportunity to discuss the exhibition at Park Hill and the relationship between Modern and contemporary art, decorative design and architecture.
Speakers include: Steven Gartside (Manchester Metropolitan), Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Dale Holmes (Sheffield Hallam University), Lisa Le Feuvre (Henry Moore Institute) and Matthew Poole (University of Essex). Chaired by curator Helen Kaplinsky.
A tour of the exhibition at Park Hill by curator Helen Kaplinsky precedes from 12.30 – 1.15pm
2.00pm: Registration 2.30pm: Introduction 2.45pm: Symposium part 1 (discussion + screenings) 4.00pm: Break (tea and coffee) 4.30pm: Symposium part 2 (discussion + screenings) 6.00pm: Drinks
In conversation event between Simon Martin and Lisa Le Feuvre follows from 6.30-7.30pm
Artist in conversation – Tuesday 22nd May 6.30pm- 7.30pm, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery
Artist Simon Martin will be in conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
There will also be a screening of ‘Carlton’ (2006) a film by Simon Martin which tells the story of a bookcase designed in 1981. Simon Martin’s practice is an attempt to reflect upon material culture. He is interested in how we understand ourselves through social structures, mythologies and collective memory evidenced in art objects, mass media and the built environment.
Tours – Saturday 12th May, 2.00 – 2.45pm and Tuesday 22nd May 12.30 - 1.15pm, Park Hill
Tours of exhibition are by curator Helen Kaplinsky – meet in ground floor foyer at Park Hill (off South Street)
Attendance to these events is free but space is limited so please contact Helen Kaplinsky to book a place: [email protected] and visit http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/news.do for updates on events
Patron: Her Majesty The Queen. Chairman: Rick Haythornthwaite. Chief Executive: Alan Bishop. Artistic Director: Jude Kelly OBE Southbank Centre is a Registered Charity No. 298909 Trustee: Southbank Centre Limited, Registered in England No.2238415
Biographies
Steven Gartside has written about and curated a number of projects including: ‘Concrete Thoughts: Modern Architecture and Contemporary Art’, Whitworth Art Gallery (co-curated with Sam Gathercole); ‘Accumulation: experiencing the city’, ‘MOSI; Addendum: architecture, sculpture and space of transition’. He is the curator of Pavement gallery, Research Fellow at MIRIAD and runs the MA Contemporary Curating course at Manchester Metropolitan University
Jaspar Joseph-Lester's work explores the role that images play in determining urban planning, social space, and everyday practice. Recent work has focused on the conflicting ideological frameworks embodied in urban regeneration projects. He is director of the Curating Video research group, and Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.
Dale Holmes is an Artist invested in the visual, political and philosophical legacies of abstract art. Recently this has taken the form of painting, writing and presentation forms that allow him to draw out vectors of knowledge specific to abstraction. He is currently an AHRC funded doctoral candidate at Sheffield Hallam University.
Lisa Le Feuvre is Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, a centre for the study of sculpture in Leeds. She was co-curator, with Tom Morton, of ‘British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’ in 2010/1. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum, and between 2004 and 2010 she taught on the Curatorial Programme in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths.
Simon Martin is an artist based in London. Recent solo shows include Collective Gallery Edinburgh 2012, Kunstverein Amsterdam 2010, Chisenhale Gallery London 2008, Group shows include Priority Moments Herald Street London 2011,British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Nottingham Hayward Gallery, CCA Glasgow / Tramway; Plymouth Arts Consortium 2010-11 and DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture Tate Liverpool 2011. His films are distributed by LUX.
Matthew Poole is Co-Director of The Centre for Curatorial Studies at The University of Essex. His research explores how the limits and integral contradictions of key forms of Liberalism are made manifest and problematised by capital and many forms of art, and how the political valence of contemporary curatorship might be reinvigorated. He also runs a project space in Deptford, South London called kynastonmcshine.
Symposium and In Conversation event GETTING THERE Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery
Cantor Building
Sheffield Hallam University
Exhibition Tours 153 Arundel Street Ground Floor and Apartments 32 and 33 Sheffield Norwich Street (off South Street) S1 2NU Park Hill Sheffield From the station cross Sheaf Square and S2 dual carriageway beyond. Take Howard Situated behind the main Sheffield Railway station (Sheaf Street) Park Hill is 10 minutes walk across the trams tracks Street (the pedestrianised walkway leading and up the hill onto South Street. Follow signs to the sales to the city centre). At the small square in office which is adjacent to the exhibition entrance. By road front of Sheffield Hallam University’s main follow the A61 and use a carpark nearby the railway building take a left by ‘The Globe’ pub – this station, note there is no parking available at Park Hill. is Arundel Street, the gallery is about two
minutes walk down this street on the left, in
‘Cantor Building’.